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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo Exec Exits For Automattic CEO Gig  —  Exclusive: Start-ups are once again cool, enough for senior executives to leave the safe confines of large companies to take a flier on tiny tots.  A couple of days I had reported that Jeff Graham, former CEO of Peribit and a senior executive …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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Toni Schneider / Toni Schneider's Blog:
Moving On From Yahoo -> Automattic  —  I wasn't going to write about this until my last day at Yahoo, but then Om Malik (the best informed man in Silicon Valley?) found out about 10 seconds after I started telling people at Yahoo, so here it goes:  —  After a great time at Yahoo working …
Matt / Photo Matt:
Automattic Toni  —  Another nice birthday present!
Discussion: PodTech Comments …
Nate Mook / betanews.com:
XP Won't Run on Intel MacBook, iMac  —  With the announcement of the first Intel based Macs yesterday, many users have rejoiced in being able to dual-boot both Mac OS X and Windows.  Unfortunately, this is not the case; due to Apple's use of the extensible firmware interface (EFI) …
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Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
YOUR NEXT PC WILL BE FROM APPLE  —  I've got ten reasons here (well, five - with all of 'em published in tonight's report, Ten Reasons Your Next PC will be from Apple):  —  Duality.  Windows Vista won't be blocked on Intel-based Apple hardware.  This means you will (in theory) …
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
The wonderful world of Apple RSS  —  Here's an example feed.  You can't read it in Firefox, and I haven't been able to get NewsRiver to read it.  They must look at the User-Agent header and only return if it's their browser.  Apparently it works with NetNewsWire.  What are they doing at Apple?
Michael Brick / New York Times:
In a Flash, Camera Dealers Feel the Web's Wrath  —  The last best address leads to a metallic gray warehouse by the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  Trash haulers go about and there is a dull buzzing sound in the hallway.  Graffiti gives information that white people are devils.
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Browsing: The Mobile Data Killer App  —  Simon Judge just pointed out a new presentation from Nokia about Smartphone usage which is really astounding in some of the light it starts to shed about how people with powerful phones on fast networks actually use their devices.
Discussion: MocoNews.net and Scobleizer
Kirk McElhearn / Kirkville:
iTunes: Apple's New Spyware and Adware Application?  —  Yesterday's update to iTunes 6.0.2 comes with a surprise: it's spyware and adware.  —  Since Apple launched the iTunes Music Store, iTunes has been a compromise: both a music management program and sales portal, it clearly separated the two …
Discussion: Boing Boing and plasticbag.org
Clay / PSP Sony PlayStation Portable:
Sony Thwarted Again - Firmware 2.60 Hacked - First Homebrew Emerges!  —  It has only been a couple of days since our in-house Hacker / Coder / Forum Moderator extraordinaire, Fanjita, released the first homebrew game for 2.50 Firmware.  Now he's taken the next step and accomplished the unthinkable, running homebrew on 2.60 Firmware!
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
MASSIVE Blog for Sale  —  I'm about to begin brokering what is likely to be the largest blog ever sold.  As most people know, blogs are sold all the time.  Most are somewhere in the top 10,000 blogs around, and they go for a couple of grand.  —  This is one of the defining blogs in the industry.
Don Oldenburg / Washington Post:
A Million to One  —  Chances Are Imitators Can't Match This Student's By-the-Pixel Web Sales Success  —  Look what Alex Tew did, and you get one of those "Why didn't I think of that?" flashes.  It's so simple, so cheap, so mind-bogglingly lucrative that it took the 21-year-old student …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Correcting the Record: Wikipedia vs The Register  —  Cory Doctorow: When editing my own Wikipedia entry got me smeared in the pages of The Register, the irony was too delicious.  Andrew Orlowski's account of my editing of my Wikipedia entry was founded on a factual error …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Anonymity Won't Kill the Internet  —  In a recent essay, Kevin Kelly warns of the dangers of anonymity.  It's OK in small doses, he maintains, but too much of it is a problem: "(I)n every system that I have seen where anonymity becomes common, the system fails.
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Google and CBS release embarrassment of a video store  —  Review "This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media," said Les Moonves, the head of CBS, about his network's new video partnership with Google.  Um, no, Les.  So far, it's just a really crap web site.
BentUser / BentUser Front Page:
Windows XP and Vista b5270 Side-by-Side  —  Front > Software > Operating Systems  —  Specifications Images  —  Windows Vista  —  Microsoft has promised the "largest upgrade since Windows 95" in Windows Vista.  In this article we take a look at build 5270, which will probably …

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